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A Boeing 737 passenger airliner is missing over Brazil, a Gol Airline spokesman confirms.
CNN ^ | 29 september 2006 | CNN

Posted on 09/29/2006 5:31:02 PM PDT by Btrp113Cav

Just breaking on CNN head line banner.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brazil; gol; golairline
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To: Velveeta

if the crash didn't kill them, then there are the anacondas...


81 posted on 09/30/2006 9:28:57 AM PDT by RDTF (Iraq: terrorist flypaper)
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To: Velveeta

per Fox just now there were no survivors


82 posted on 09/30/2006 9:32:52 AM PDT by RDTF (Iraq: terrorist flypaper)
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To: RDTF

This accident is getting stranger and stranger. Occam's Razor would say that there was a mid-air between the Legacy and the 737, if the planes were in the same area and the Legacy had to make an emergency landing shortly after the 737 crashed. But for the smaller plane to survive a collision and the larger one (by a factor of three) to not, is very odd. Not impossible, but odd.

The Legacy getting hit by debris from sort of explosion onboard the 737 would be almost impossible. That's hitting a bullet with a bullet; normal rules for separation are 1,000 feet vertically and (I think) three miles laterally.

}:-)4


83 posted on 09/30/2006 9:54:51 AM PDT by Moose4 (They caught me white and nerdy.)
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To: RDTF
Snakes outside the plane.

Ok, on a serious note, I hope the report of some survivors is accurate. This is a horrible tragedy.

With the varying reports, I wonder if the 2nd plane was hit by debris from the other when it exploded?

84 posted on 09/30/2006 10:56:07 AM PDT by TNdandelion
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To: Moose4

OK.


85 posted on 09/30/2006 10:56:56 AM PDT by TNdandelion
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To: Blowtorch

don't get upset..it's the Rovian weather/gas/diebold machine that's been programmed and is in operation..they need to work on the "Bush's fault" add-on..:)


86 posted on 09/30/2006 11:09:01 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info)
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To: RDTF

I heard there wasn't a mid-air collision.


87 posted on 09/30/2006 11:15:06 AM PDT by Ptarmigan (Ptarmigans will rise again!)
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To: RDTF; KylaStarr; All

Per Airliners.net

"NYT reporter and columnist Joe Sharkey was one of the passangers onboard the Legacy." (the smaller plane)
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/3014999/


88 posted on 09/30/2006 12:15:23 PM PDT by Velveeta
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

Foz do Iguacu, Brazil is one of three towns which comprise the tri-border area, the largest terrorist hub in the western hemisphere. Imad Mugniyah, Hezbollah's international operations chief, is believed to be based in the area.


89 posted on 09/30/2006 1:06:22 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (better put some ice on that, Chris)
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To: COEXERJ145
"Too many people love to assign a cause when all they have are 10% of the facts and a lot of rumor."

We usually need a lot less to declare definatively that it is

(Please press 1 for President Bush, please press 2 for Vice President Cheny, please press 3 for Secretary Rice, please press 4 for Secretary Rumsfeld, please press 5 for "the military", please press 6 for "the jack booted thugs", please press 7 for Spanish choices and a complete cerebral hemorrhage.)

fault.

90 posted on 09/30/2006 1:12:26 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: indcons

Sounds like no one survived the crash. Prayers to the families of those on board.


91 posted on 09/30/2006 1:23:03 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier)
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To: Paradox
Can't. A transponder may have been incorrect.
92 posted on 09/30/2006 1:33:07 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Moose4

I guess anything can and will happen.(Murphy's Law)


93 posted on 09/30/2006 2:09:34 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

TANKS,,,I could not remember the name or place,,,,


94 posted on 09/30/2006 2:11:16 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: Moose4

correct me if I am wrong, but aren't planes flyign north, or east suppose to be at an even altitude (32,000 28,000) and planes flying west or south at an odd altitude? I could have the even and odd mixed up.


95 posted on 09/30/2006 2:14:41 PM PDT by LukeL (Never let the enemy pick the battle site. (Gen. George S. Patton))
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To: LukeL

Yeah, it's the other way around. Aircraft flying on headings of 000-179 degrees should be at odd altitudes and those on headings of 180-359 degrees should be at even.

According to the people posting over on those airliners.net threads, the captain of the Legacy reported that he saw a "shadow" over his aircraft and then there was a "hard bump." The conjecture on some Brazilian TV was that the 737 was descending and one of the Legacy's wings ripped into the 737's belly and damaged the plane enough to cause it to go out of control. But at that point, that's sheer guesswork, and will be until investigators can go over the Legacy and over the 737's wreckage, and pull out the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from both aircraft.

}:-)4


96 posted on 09/30/2006 4:04:18 PM PDT by Moose4 (They caught me white and nerdy.)
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To: Btrp113Cav
Photo of crash site:


97 posted on 09/30/2006 4:19:30 PM PDT by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: Btrp113Cav

Gol's a hot stock because it's a good company. Bad news all around.


98 posted on 09/30/2006 4:23:24 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

'Foz do Iguacu'

Unbelievably beautiful waterfalls are there. Big tourist spot.


99 posted on 09/30/2006 4:57:02 PM PDT by RDTF (Iraq: terrorist flypaper)
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To: RDTF

My understanding is that most of activity is happening on the Paraguay side. But the border is completely unprotected, so terrorists can and do move freely between the three countries.


100 posted on 09/30/2006 5:04:10 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (better put some ice on that, Chris)
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